“You get what you repeat.”

With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.

When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy.

Perseverance, grit, and willpower are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing you were a more disciplined person, but by creating a more disciplined environment.

Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.

The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.

How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?

In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption

What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?

Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.

Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.

As a general rule, the more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long-term goals.

Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.

When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.

Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.

Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.

Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

I mean, my music career and my acting career – if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it’s going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I’m hoping they’ll just go hand in hand.

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

Beauty becomes alive and interesting when it’s habited.

Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.